Christopher Bray

Composer, conductor, author, pianist, lecturer — was there anything Leonard Bernstein couldn’t do?

A review of Allen Shawn’s life of this maverick reveals him as an object of both admiration and suspicion in the music world

issue 29 November 2014
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